Basic Terminology & Definitions:Concurrency, Process synchronization, Mutual Exclusion, Race Condition,Critical Section, Data Coherence, Deadlock, Livelock, starvation, atomic operation, busy waiting, Semaphore, Monitor, message passing, mutex, 

Principles, Approaches and Requirements:process computation synchronizations,  properties of Critical Section implementation, solution mechanisms to achieve concurrency, requirements for mutual exclusion, design issues for concurrency

Software Approaches:Dekker’s solution, Peterson’s solution, Comparison of both solutions

Hardware Approaches:Dekker’s solution, Peterson’s solution, Comparison of both solutions

Support from Operating systems and Programming Languages:Semaphores, Monitors, Message passing

Concurrency Mechanisms in different OS:Concurrency in Unix, Solaris and windows

Solutions To Classical Problems:Solutions to producer-consumer problem, readers-writers problem, sleeping barbershop problem using semaphore, monitors and message passing

 Multiple Choice Questions